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About Richard J. Gonzalez...
Richard J. Gonzalez is one of the Midwest's most well-known employment attorneys, concentrating his practice in representation of employees and employers in employment discrimination and wrongful discharge cases. Within recent years, he has gained major litigation victories and substantial out-of-court settlement in cases against Fortune 500 corporations, and in 2008 was inducted into "Illinois Super Lawyers," which recognizes the state's most prominent attorneys within their fields of practice.
His background prior to joining Chicago-Kent's faculty in 1988 was as an Administrative Law Judge with the Illinois Human Rights Commission, where his decisions under the then-new state discrimination laws helped create and shape Illinois workplace law. He also brought to Chicago-Kent extensive trial experience, both as a litigator with the Chicago firm of James D. Montgomery & Associates and with the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago.
Professor Gonzalez is known nationally for his work with the National Employment Lawyer's Association and is active in its Illinois Chapter. He has authored a series of practice-related articles and is a sought-after speaker on employment-related topics. Professor Gonzalez is a frequent panel member at conventions, seminars, and continuing legal education programs for the practicing bar. He has been an Illinois Bar Grader, has chaired Chicago Bar Association committees, has been a creator of Federal Court Model Jury Instructions, and currently serves as a judge and advisor to the Cook County Human Rights Commission, where he recently created the Commission's rules on disability discrimination.
Professor Gonzalez is an active and prominent presence within the Illinois employment law community. He is well-known and highly regarded for honesty, competence, and ethical conduct among plaintiff and defense counsel, the judiciary, the E.E.O.C., and state and local anti-discrimination agencies.
A graduate of Northwestern University, Professor Gonzalez
obtained his law degree from the Ohio State University College of Law.
He
teaches Employment Discrimination, Pre-Trial Litigation, Negotiation, and Advanced Legal Writing for Labor and Employment Law
at the law school, and has been a principal architect of Chicago-Kent's
nationally renowned Law Offices, the nation's first fee-generating law
firm within a major U.S. law school.
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